 | BY BOB WARREN | Staff writer |
Violent night, violent day: It’s been a very violent couple of days around the New Orleans metro area. Jefferson Parish authorities were on the scene this morning of what appears to be a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of four family members, Michelle Hunter and Carlie Wells write. It follows an unrelated murder-suicide last night. And NOPD now says seven people were shot last night at Bullard and Chef Menteur, our Missy Wilkinson reports. Two people were killed in that mass shooting.
Jury watch: We’re on jury watch in the federal bank fraud trial stemming from the collapse of the First NBC Bank. Ashton Ryan Jr., the bank’s founder and CEO, and Fred Beebe, a mid-level loan officer, both face multiple charges. The jury began deliberating Wednesday afternoon after hearing hours upon hours of testimony over the past four and half weeks.
School name skirmish: The renaming of a New Orleans school could be headed to court. A charter school group has sued the Orleans Parish School Board over the issue, Marie Fazio writes.
Oh, that 1839 Mardi Gras: The parade season kicks off in earnest Friday, with dozens of processions large and small over the next 12 days. Our Doug MacCash has a story today about a much earlier version of Mardi Gras — like, from nearly 200 years ago.
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